Hoboken Historical Museum to host film screening, Q&A

As part of the Hoboken Historical Museum’s latest installment on the immigration experience, the museum will host a film screening of “Every Day is a Holiday” with a Q&A with Director Teresa Loong.

The hour-long documentary chronicled Loong’s father’s journey from being a Japanese prisoner of war in Malaysia to becoming a U.S. citizen, and won this year’s Black Maria Film Festival Jury’s Stellar Award.

Loong discovered a secret diary her father had written when he was a teenager during World War II, vowing to make “every day a holiday” if he survived.

Using intimate conversations, rare archival footage and his wartime diary, the film traces how, through sheer strength of will, Paul Loong overcame the horrors of war and obstacles as an immigrant.

The screening will take place at the museum, located at 1301 Hudson St. on Sunday, at 4 p.m. A $5 donation is requested to attend. For information, contact festival director Jane Steuerwald, jane@blackmariafilmfestival.org, 201-200-2043, www.blackmariafilmfestival.org or www.hobokenmuseum.org.